to save people from going down this road that PHI PI EPSILON comes into existance. Many things are done by the human race that are enjoyable and helpful when not "run into the ground". Thus a bit of alcohol before dinner is physiologically useful science tells us, but everybody knows the end result of extremes in its use. Likewise the practice of cross dressing can be a "thing of beauty and a joy forever" if it is done with understanding, acceptance and enjoyment. But if there is always some new "thrill" which must be attained; if the individual becomes more concerned with imitation of the female sex than he is with the feminine gender (that is to say with femininity below the belt than femininity above it); if there is always just one more goal to be attained, ultimate failure, frustration, disillusionment and perhaps something even. more serious are as sure as tomorrow's dawn. It cannot be otherwise. We are NOT women and in trying to push our personation of them to the ul- timate we cannot help but come to a shipwreck on the hard rock of this fact. Let us therefore not try to be females, let us try to be ladies--there is a big difference as any proper lady can tell you.

The growth and development that we are concerned with in this Sorority begins at the same point, the locked door stage, but while we wish to unlock the physical door and perhaps go out in the open, it is even more important to unlock the mental and emotional door and get out into the openness of self understanding, self accept- ance and social intercourse with other FPS and with other non-FPs who see that this expression of femininity is not only reasonable, in our culture it is almost necessary for the male, though not nec- essarily through TVism. Far better he should wear the tight lacing corset on his body than to remain tightly laced within the arbit- rary and constricted mental confines to which present day society tries to limit the male.

So the sorority is here for those whose development has taken them to the point of Femme Personation which differs from simple transvestism in much the same way as being a champion Olympic swim- mer differs from the person who simply puts on a bathing suit and gets in the pool. Cross-dressing may be done for criminal, immoral or entertainment purposes or just "for the hell of it", but to truly Femme Personate one has to have development to the point of knowing that he possesses a feminine component, accepting it, and express- ing it. Is that YOU??

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